Monetary compensation?? Those namby-pamby rabbis just didn't have the nerve to be literal. Here's how it's really done!
Pakistan court orders brothers' noses, ears cut off
LAHORE, Pakistan
Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:55am EST
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court has ordered that two brothers should have their noses and ears cut off after they were found guilty of doing the same to a woman who refused to marry one of them, a government prosecutor said on Tuesday.
The judge at an anti-terrorism court in the eastern city of Lahore handed down the sentences on Monday in line with the Islamic law of Qisas.
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it is not clear if Torah originally had these laws carried out literary.
if "eye for eye" was carried out literary, than paying for medical expenses makes no sense, which exodus 21:19 requires.
It's really part of an earlier ANE body of law.
s much as I hate Islam, I have to agreewith the verdict!
I concur with anonymous. I have no sympathy for the perpetrators. They should also cut off something below the belt.
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